Glass short-strip mosaic bowl fragment
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Translucent yellow green and purple appearing partially as deep honey brown, and opaque white.
Vertical, rounded rim; convex curving side, tapering gently downward.
Short-strip mosaic pattern formed from short lengths of two different canes: one in yellow with a white stripe, and the other in purple layered and striped with white; a third, composite cane, roughly rectangular, appears as a face in white with features drawn in very fine purple lines and hair in purple with white vertical lines. A purple (?) network cane wound spirally with two white threads is attached as a rim.
For face canes on a Venetian glass bowl, dated to the late 19th century and made in imitation of Roman examples, see 81.8.207.
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